Youth (2015)
Storyline
YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
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Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano, Ed Stoppard, Rachel Weisz, Alex MacQueen, Emilia Jones, Mark Kozelek, Jane Fonda, Paloma Faith, Veronika Dash, Mădălina Diana Ghenea, Tom Lipinski, Eugenia Caruso, Rebecca Calder, Robert Seethaler, Luna Mijović, Chloe Pirrie, Alex Beckett, Nate Dern, Mark Gessner, Sonia Gessner, Gabriela Belisario, Laura De Marchi, Ian Keir Attard, Adam Jackson-Smith, Dorji Wangchuk, Roly Serrano, Loredana Cannata, Vincent Wolterbeek, Wolfgang Michael, Cornelia Marxer, Heidi Maria Glössner, Helmut Förnbacher, Alessandro Soriano, Maria Letizia Gorga, Leo Artin, Attilio Zampieri, Aldo Ralli, Alexander Seibt, Kaspar Weiss, Sarah Amitrano, Portia Reiners, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Leoni Stäubli, Alice Bauer, Anabel Kutay, Paulina Jürgens, Beatrice Walker, Elizabeth Kinnear, Josie Taylor, Melinda Bokor, Jasmin Barbara Mairhofer, Céline Peruzzo, Bleta Jahaj, Lydia Rattei, Ashley Bryant, Beatrice Curnew, Tatiana Luter, Valentina Vujovic, Julia Danuser, Svenja Hässig, Lola Tobelem, Dominique Leidner, Anna Marie Cseh, Daniela Bolliger, Aleksandra Lazarevic, Felicitas Heyerick, Carolina Carlsson, Pascal Fleury, Viktoria Mullova, Sumi Jo
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Reviews
100
Youth is a voluptuary’s feast, a full-body immersion in the sensory pleasures of the cinema.
100
Paolo Sorrentino, with Youth, delivers his most tender film to date, an emotionally rich contemplation of life’s wisdom gained, lost and remembered — with cynicism harping from the sidelines, but as a wearied chord rather than a major motif.
91
Youth has some significant points on frustration of fame, ageism and our natural inclination to lose perspective, but it’s primarily about finding peace and happiness in your life. That may sound painfully obvious. It may even sound cliché. But somehow Sorrentino is able to fashion the film's diverse elements into an emotional narrative that makes it all feel fresh and new. And that’s truly worth celebrating.
90
The wry, flamboyant cinematic opera of Paolo Sorrentino reaches new heights of showy, utterly tasteful magnificence in Youth.
83
With each new twist, Sorrentino is always one step ahead of his audience, building a narrative that skips along at an enthralling pace.
